Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

Made a small video of my laptop booting directly into Steam. I think there might also be a setting in Big Picture Mode to enable it as the default GUI. With a 360 controller that's basically a Steambox.

Had to start a Openbox Session, because without a window manager i could not very much. With chromium "exec chromium" in .xinitrc works without WM for some reason.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

blackout23 wrote:

Made a small video of my laptop booting directly into Steam. I think there might also be a setting in Big Picture Mode to enable it as the default GUI. With a 360 controller that's basically a Steambox.

Had to start a Openbox Session, because without a window manager i could not very much. With chromium "exec chromium" in .xinitrc works without WM for some reason.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

blackout23 wrote:

Made a small video of my laptop booting directly into Steam. I think there might also be a setting in Big Picture Mode to enable it as the default GUI. With a 360 controller that's basically a Steambox.

Had to start a Openbox Session, because without a window manager i could not very much. With chromium "exec chromium" in .xinitrc works without WM for some reason.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

There's an option in the steam client under the help tab called system information. Anyone getting any awkward output? I know my systems with radeon cards have something really weird in that spot along with only kilobytes of video ram detected.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

Pad wrote:

blackout23 wrote:

Made a small video of my laptop booting directly into Steam. I think there might also be a setting in Big Picture Mode to enable it as the default GUI. With a 360 controller that's basically a Steambox.

Had to start a Openbox Session, because without a window manager i could not very much. With chromium "exec chromium" in .xinitrc works without WM for some reason.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

Edit: Hmm, Oil Rush doesn't work even though the version which I have is Linux compatible why isn't the steam version (i.e the windows version) working on linux?

If you're getting a missing executable error, then it's because the developers haven't uploaded their Linux files to steam yet. It'll be done soon.

That's the thing, I'm not getting a missing executable error. All I'm getting is an error message which says somthing like "Not available for your current platform" I've even tried downloading the files through steam and this message pops up constantly - and when I try the files which I've already got, it says the game can't run. Could this be a bug in steam, at the moment? Other's have managed to get his/her games running but not me.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

DarkCerberus wrote:

That's the thing, I'm not getting a missing executable error. All I'm getting is an error message which says somthing like "Not available for your current platform" I've even tried downloading the files through steam and this message pops up constantly - and when I try the files which I've already got, it says the game can't run. Could this be a bug in steam, at the moment? Other's have managed to get his/her games running but not me.

I can't see Oil Rush on any of the game lists for Steam Linux [1][2]. Are you sure that the Oil Rush version in Steam is linux enabled?

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

Ram-Z wrote:

DarkCerberus wrote:

That's the thing, I'm not getting a missing executable error. All I'm getting is an error message which says somthing like "Not available for your current platform" I've even tried downloading the files through steam and this message pops up constantly - and when I try the files which I've already got, it says the game can't run. Could this be a bug in steam, at the moment? Other's have managed to get his/her games running but not me.

I can't see Oil Rush on any of the game lists for Steam Linux [1][2]. Are you sure that the Oil Rush version in Steam is linux enabled?

That's what I don't understand - the version which I have is Linux enabled on the disc I have the Linux version in a ".sh" file format. The version is 1.03 but steam's version should be the same or higher since then more updates have been available. If you don't believe me that Oil Rush is Linux compatible have a look here:

Edit: Is there a command line which I could enter next to the "--silent" which would fool the steam platform in thinking that it's on Ubuntu - I think this might be the problem, though I have no idea what command line to use.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

I know that Oil Rush is Linux compatible, but the developers need to have made the Linux files available in Steam. If they haven't you won't be able to download Oil Rush for Linux within the Steam client.

There is a plethora of games with Linux ports that are not available via Steam -- FTL, Super Meat Boy, Trine, to name a few. The Steam Linux client is still in beta, give them more time and more games will probably appear.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

Although I'm not in the beta, I can actually use Steam with the excellent AUR package. I only played 'Killing Floor' so far (works great), but gonna try a lot more in the coming days!

Has anyone managed to get the Steam icon in their tray area? I don't seem to get one (using Gnome), but I've read varying successes with this.

This is not implemented YET with the native linux version of steam, though running the windows version through wine will give you the icon in your notifcation tray. It's on their to do list, and will be soon easily implemented for at least those that run GTK based GUIs. KDE and other folks may have to wait longer but don't take my word for it. Something about different methods of handling system trays / notifcations... etc...

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

I installed Steam through the AUR, and as I'm not in the Beta I used the bypass trick to get to the Games list. Sword and sorcery works fine for me, will try some more games when I get more time. Running Open Source Intel drivers and awesome as WM.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

Steam is in repos! Wow, it's a little bit unusual to put such young and closed-beta package inside official repositories. It will help to adopt it and keep updated, sure, but I hope it's just a special case not the rule. Anyway I'm glad it happened (the same way I got e.g. flash in repos) but it's a little bit to soon for my taste.

Re: Looking forward to having Steam on Linux? Read this.

masteryod wrote:

Steam is in repos! Wow, it's a little bit unusual to put such young and closed-beta package inside official repositories. It will help to adopt it and keep updated, sure, but I hope it's just a special case not the rule.